A TIME-DOMAIN APPROACH TO MODEL VALIDATION

In this paper we offer a novel approach to control-oriented model validation problems. The problem is to decide whether a postulated nominal model with bounded uncertainty is consistent with measured input-output data. Our papproach directly uses time-domain input-output data to validate uncertainty models. The algorithms we develop are computationally tractable and reduce to (generally non-differentiable) convex feasibility problems or to linear programming problems. In special cases, we give analytical solutions to these problems.